LEAGUE OF LEGENDS PBE UPDATE
LEAGUE OF LEGENDS PBE PATCH

One matchmade game a day gives you 3,000 Riot Points.

There are no daily Riot Points grants anymore (they simply broke), as they were replaced by a daily mission. After all, you start with Level 30 and all champions unlocked. Skins will be your biggest currency sink on the PBE server. Although this is practically a standard even for closed betas nowadays, this liberty certainly was novel in the early 2010s. You may simply try out new champions and satisfy your curiosity about other new things. On the other hand, PBE players are not obliged to provide any feedback at all. This may change at least for skins with the new approach for Season 2020, where Rioters hardly reply to any feedback but go through all of it. Individual concerns are mostly addressed during extended cycles, such as Preseason or new game modes/Teamfight Tactics. This leads to extreme outliers like 10.2 Diana with a win rate of 55% or release Aphelios who provide enemies with no context to his abilities.Įssentially, PBE appears to function as stress test grounds and a source of quantitative feedback. Multiple prominent players and content creators claim that Riot often ignores their bug reports for months and never addresses balance concerns. Sewn Chaos skins for Amumu and Blitzcrank were eventually cancelledįor some reason, PBE doesn’t seem to be a good testing environment when it comes to players’ feedback. Some things, fancy or otherwise, never make it to the larger player base.

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS PBE PATCH

For example, Wukong rework was first presented in late 2019, tweaked for testing during PBE 10.2 cycle, but never made it into the live build of Patch 10.2.

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS PBE UPDATE

This includes balance changes, skins, new champions/reworks.Īpart from changes for the next numerical version, League developers may update PBE with things for later releases and/or experimental stuff. The game is less flexible this way, but at least you get to check out new stuff much earlier. Shortly after, Riot Games uploaded the contents of Patch 10.3 to the PBE server. For example, Patch 10.2 was released on January 22. League of Legends operates on two-week patch cycles, so new versions have to be completed almost a month in advance. If you feel like the delay makes too much of a difference, avoid playing during peak NA time. As a European, I tend to have a ping of about 200.Ī silver lining here is that most people would be playing with higher ping as well. Riot only hosts instances in North America. Unfortunately, regional diversity is not as good as the linguistic one when it comes to the PBE.

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